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by freejazz 1226 days ago
>I would greatly appreciate a moratorium on this genre of article until there is compelling accompanying evidence that a meaningful portion of ChatGPT's users are unaware of these shortcomings. I have yet to encounter or even hear of a non-technical person playing around with ChatGPT without stumbling into the type of confidently-stated absurdities and half-truths displayed in this article, and embracing that as a limitation of the tool.

There was the chatGPT program for reviewing legal documents that the creator posted here weeks ago. Several people pointed out the dangerous shortcomings in the application, to which the creator completely ignored (it got the entire directionality of the ycombinator SAFE wrong, among other things) and numerous posters exclaimed things like "going to use this on my lease!". so, I think you are being a bit disingenuous with this whole "it's just wikipedia" thing and pretending like no one would use it ignorantly. It's just obviously not true and that's perusing comments here.
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iinnPP 1226 days ago
I used ChatGPT to write cover letters and to create job specific resumes(with an additional tool).

Then those documents resulted in employment.

I had to edit some, and I went over all of them.

I have to assume people look at the thing they understand may be inaccurate (because you can't possibly miss THAT fact) and give it at least a quick once over. Lacking that, it's a failure of the person, not the tool.

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freejazz 1226 days ago
How are you going to tell if it accurately analyzed a legal document if you don't know how to accurately analyze a legal document? It's a tool that's being sold for jobs it shouldn't be doing, if that's the characterization that helps you understand the issue and not turn this into "blaming the tool for something it shouldn't be doing"
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iinnPP 1226 days ago
Ask and verify or integrate with a tool that cuts the inaccuracies out. Sometimes that is not possible.

There are plenty of pieces of the legal system that would benefit, today, from adding a well-made ChatGPT process. Perhaps not perfectly, in such a flawed system.

As an example, ChatGPT could assess the actions leading to a charge and compare the law to the actions of an individual.

Before you bash the idea, I happen to know of a case where ChatGPT outperformed the US Federal government in this analysis.

1 success is worth the cost.

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freejazz 1226 days ago
Wow what an amazing and impossible to argue against anecdote that defies any examples I've seen.
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